The Alkaline Diet

Alkalinity And Diet

There is a lot of buzz around the Alkaline Diet these days and people have started to recognize its beneficial effects to the body, including more energy and reduced risks for chronic diseases like diabetes.
The alkaline diet is anchored on the idea that through eating more fruits and vegetables, consuming meat in moderation, avoiding excessive alcohol intake, opting for healthy fats, steering clear from sugar and salt-laden processed foods, and keeping the body well hydrated, a person will be able to maintain pH levels in their body that is slightly alkaline which promotes optimum health and wellness.

Alkalinity is not a new concept. In 1912, Nobel Peace Prize winner for Physiology of Medicine Dr. Alexis Carrel was quoted saying “The human cell is immortal, as long as we maintain the alkaline fluids that it is bathed in.”In 1933, Dr. William Howard Hay, a proponent of food combining said “Now we depart from health in just the proportion to which we have allowed our alkalis to be dissipated by introduction of acid-forming food in too great amount... It may seem strange to say that all disease is the same thing, no matter what its myriad modes of expression, but it is verily so.”

Dr. Arthur Guyton, author of the Textbook of Medical Physiology has also said that “The first step to maintaining health is to alkalize the body. The cells of a healthy body are alkaline while the cells of a diseased body are acidic. Since our bodies do not manufacture alkalinity, we must supply the alkalinity from an outside source to keep us from being acidic and dying.”

Today, one of the most famous proponents of the Alkaline Diet, Dr. Robert O. Young has explained in his internationally renowned book, The pH Miracle that “The first step to maintaining health is to alkalize the body. The cells of a healthy body are alkaline while the cells of a diseased body are acidic. Since our bodies do not manufacture alkalinity, we must supply the alkalinity from an outside source to keep us from being acidic and dying.

While it is true that the body has a natural mechanism to maintain a slightly alkaline state and works overtime to keep it that way, advocates of the alkaline diet argue that a person’s diet can directly affect the way the body regulates its pH levels. Because of this, it is important to help the body maintain this alkaline state. This can be done through maintaining a diet of 70 to 80 percent alkaline forming food and 20 to 30 percent acid forming food.

According to SevenPoint2®’s William Sickert, BSc. JD, CNC, “Your health is best served by a good mix of nutrient-dense, alkaline and acid-forming foods; ideally, you want to eat more alkaline-forming foods than acid-forming foods to have the net acid and alkaline-forming effects of your diet match the slightly alkaline pH of your blood.”

He further explains that “If you're eating mainly grains, flour products, animal foods, and washing these foods down with coffee, soda, and milk, you will almost certainly improve your health by replacing some of your food and beverage choices with fresh vegetables and fruits.”

Of course apart from eating healthy food that leaves traces of alkali in the body, taking the right supplements also doesn’t hurt.

Alkaline Diet Products

Here are some SevenPoint2® products that are perfect for people who wish to go on an Alkaline Diet:

This great tasting vegan shake is the foundation of your alkaline lifestyle. 7.2 Shake’s proprietary formula is an excellent high-quality/low-carbohydrate protein source. This easily digestible formula is high in fiber and provides an extensive array of naturally occurring amino acids, which are the building blocks of protein.

7.2 Greens are an organic, delicious and revitalizing essential supplement designed to gently detoxify the body and help you achieve an alkaline lifestyle.

7.2 Greens are loaded with healthy green superfoods, cereal grasses, and alkalizing vegetables in a great-tasting powder. Unlike other green products commonly associated with an unfavorable taste, our greens taste so good that even the most finicky palates will enjoy them. They really do taste that good.

7.2 Green Caps are a revitalizing essential supplement designed to feed your body the nutrients it needs and to help you achieve an alkaline lifestyle. The Green caps are loaded with plenty of healthy green superfoods, cereal grasses, and alkalizing vegetables.

Affectionately nicknamed “The Hall Pass”, the 7.2 Alkaline Booster is perfect after having an acidic meal and/or beverage(s), or before bed. This product works instantly to bring you from acidic pH levels to alkaline. The 7.2 Alkaline Booster allows you to live the lifestyle you are accustomed to, while staying on track with your goal of being pH balanced.

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